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Article #50Re: A modest proposal
From: Dick Karpinski
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1985 22:36
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1985 22:36
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In article <1248@jhunix.UUCP> ins_apmj@jhunix.ARPA (Patrick M Juola) writes: >In article <274@l5.uucp> laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes: >>not. If a fetus is a huamn being at 6 months, but not at 6 weeks, then >>an abortion is a murder at 6 months and an abortion is not murder at >>6 weeks. This is the whole issue. > >guilt. In this context, the "human" discussion is pointless, since the >commandment reads "Thou shalt not kill," not "Thou shalt not kill humans." > Pat Juola When last I checked in the Interpreter's Bible, the term used originally meant "the unlawful slaying of a fellow tribesperson" which is how "righteous people" can go around slaying all them folks in the next territory over. Very much a legal definition of murder. Certainly not used then to include abortion. Check it out with your clergy. Dick -- Dick Karpinski Manager of Unix Services, UCSF Computer Center UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!dick (415) 666-4529 (12-7) BITNET: dick@ucsfcca Compuserve: 70215,1277 Telemail: RKarpinski USPS: U-76 UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcca.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!ucsfcca!dick From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) Newsgroups: net.suicide,net.religion,net.abortion Subject: Re: A modest proposal Message-ID: <424@ucsfcca.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 17:36:40 EST Article-I.D.: ucsfcca.424 Posted: Sat Nov 23 17:36:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 08:22:24 EST References: <925@utcs.uucp> <1117@mtx5a.UUCP> <1863@hao.UUCP> <274@l5.uucp> <1248@jhunix.UUCP> Reply-To: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) Distribution: net Organization: UCSF Computer Center Lines: 23 Summary: Thou shalt not commit murder.